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I buy most of my ebooks | 214 | 64.85% | |
I use P2P to get most of my ebooks | 87 | 26.36% | |
I use P2P to read my ebooks and then buy the good ones (nobody believes this btw.) | 23 | 6.97% | |
I don't read ebooks | 6 | 1.82% | |
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03-31-2009, 04:42 AM | #31 | |
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If a book is available in officially, I will always buy the book, no matter the price (naturally, if I am interrested...) If a book isn't available officially, and I desperately want it, I will use other means to get it. But I will buy it as soon as it becomes available officially. If a publisher is too lazy or an author (or his/her descendants) is too scared (can't find another word for it) to publish their books in another format than pbook even while there are lots of possible buyers, I'm not sure why I should sponsor them. |
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03-31-2009, 04:52 AM | #32 | |
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They don't, but then they wouldn't get a payment if said downloader loaned the book from a friend, bought it second hand, or found it left behind on a train. They're even less likely to get a payment if they live in a country where the library system is in a shambles and they can't get hold of the books any other place than downloading. Here's some more statistics: http://www.plr.uk.com/registrationse...s.htm#collsocs Of the 32,000 plus who were eligible for payments from the PLR, the vast majority made between £1-99, with only 352 reaching the £5-6,000 limit. Of course those 352 are already multi-million dollar sellers for the most part and the money would be a drop in the ocean for them. It might buy JK Rowling a clue about the digital age, but not much more. If you're seriously arguing that £1-99 makes a difference in a writer's income per year, then I really don't know what to say. Even at the threshold of >£500 which is the next biggest tally, the actual benefit of the payment is negligible, and probably wouldn't bring most authors up to the national minimum-living wage. We've seriously got to stop thinking about monetary recompense when it comes to writing. Our culture has been in a straight-jacket for far too long, and now we have people doing something about it. From Feedbooks to indie publishers, to the P2P communities, there are people, without any thought of profit, who just want to share what they love with others. Writers don't exist without readers, yet over and over again we see these arguments against filehsaring, against the generation of readers who are growing up now. A generation and a culture, I might add, that buy a lot more products than any other. If a writer wants to make gobs of cash, then he's in the wrong business. Writing is an act of love, of passion and commitment. You can make more money doing almost anything else. McDonalds pays more than most writers earn per year. Probably less stressful too, and you get free food. |
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03-31-2009, 05:01 AM | #33 | |
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If you want people to carry on writing books, please support them by buying those books (whether paper books or eBooks). |
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03-31-2009, 05:08 AM | #34 |
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You missed the option to get free (and legal)books only. There are a bunch of places I have found from reading here, and as I only got my reader a few months ago, I'm still reading freebies. I should be at the stage of buying DRM free books this time next year with any luck
I'm with a few of the other posters here. DRM = Lost sale. So I think I'll be avoiding the more famous authors for a while as far as e-books are concerned. |
03-31-2009, 05:09 AM | #35 | |
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I think you hit the nail on the head with your first sentence, if a writer is treating their work as 'just like any other job' then why is said writer bothering? Christ, there's a lot of easier, less emotional ways to make money. And I hear that McDonalds is hiring year round. |
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03-31-2009, 05:20 AM | #36 | |
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Publishers are not "going away" - whatever gives you that idea? I suspect that the majority of people who've never written a book don't have the faintest idea of what a publisher actually does. Virtually all that work applies equally to paper books and to eBooks. Books still need to be professionally edited, advertised, sold to retailers, and so on. The simple fact is that the majority of people who "self publish" do so because they aren't good enough to get published professionally. Self publishing is not going to replace "real" publishers any time in the foreseeable future, believe me! |
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03-31-2009, 05:38 AM | #37 | |
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Not good enough, you say? Publishing has never been about quality, its about marketing, about the bottom line, the least offensive, the most passive. For the most part what we see is pablum, uninspired, unflavoured, unremarkable escapism written and published in the hopes of appealing to the most readers. Every once in awhile a book might jump out of that pale soup and surprise, but it's not too often, and it's a risk that publishers take less and less these days. You argue for the status-quo, the old instead of the new, the fixed instead of the fluid. You argue against a tide that is unstoppable, a culture that can no longer be restrained. For the gatekeepers instead of the lock-pickers. For the shackled instead of the free. I've already got a boss. I already have to go to meetings with people that annoy me day in and day out. I already tow the line to get my paycheck. Why in Hell would I want to do this with writing? Why would any new author? Because, somehow, maybe, if the gatekeepers pull their finger out I might make a little more than minimum wage per year? Why wouldn't I, or any writer, pubbed or unpubbed, official or unofficial want to be part of an exciting time in literature, in culture? Last edited by Moejoe; 03-31-2009 at 05:41 AM. |
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03-31-2009, 05:45 AM | #38 |
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I'm afraid that we must agree to differ. We're obviously not going to influence each other's opinion, are we?
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03-31-2009, 05:46 AM | #39 |
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03-31-2009, 05:49 AM | #40 |
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If you are talking about the free books really published as such, then by all means select the buy option. But if you are talking about the fact that "piracy" might be legal for your country, then please select the P2P option.
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03-31-2009, 05:51 AM | #41 |
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Nothing in the poll fits me.
I do download books but mostly when the book is unavailable in Amazon's store. I don't care about the legality but I do try to support the authors I enjoy the most. |
03-31-2009, 05:53 AM | #42 |
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If writing a book is just another job; maybe they could enter the public domain once the author has been sufficiently recompensed?
A system where a book goes into the PD after the author has made their £20,000 from it - or ten years since pub otherwise. Just a thought. |
03-31-2009, 05:54 AM | #43 |
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It's not pirated books,it's borrowed knowledge.
A student in need of 3 and 4 technical ( mechanical,medical etc) books a year when each costs from 100$ to 300$ some, cannot afford them.So you borrow a fellow student's book or a library copy and photocopy it.Is this piracy? If in order to pass a class I have to read a crappy,idiot,ultra expensive book or ebook, a title that the professor demands you to know, why should I pay 250$ for the sh!+ ? And for a title that on my own I would never read,not the less to pay for it. I photocopy pages I need.Many others do the same.And no I don't buy second hand books, I hate them.A book is a very personal item and I want it new, when I choose to buy it. To the publishers: "Go.... you know the rest" In p2p you find mainly comics and outadated editions of technical books.You have to photocopy the latest from a friend. I never read comics,it would be an insult for me if I would,comics are such a waste of time,worst than porn magazines.Neither ridiculous novels.The same goes for style,gossip,fashion magazines and books.Only people with low I.Q. and low dignity read these worthless paper-wasting abominations. |
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